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Adoption of Eclipse based development tools in large organizations usually requires several adaptations and customizations to meet the needs of specific user groups. Traditionally this is accomplished by having a group of "expert users" in the organization develop specific Java plugins for customizing and extending the functionality of the tool. However, this approach can lead to significant complexity and a high maintenance burden, especially if multiple versions of the software are in use at the same time in different parts of the organization.

Eclipse Cyclone DDS is an implementation of the Data Distribution Service (DDS), a standard for interoperable, secure, and efficient data sharing, used at the foundation of some of the most challenging Consumer and Industrial IoT applications, such as Smart Cities, Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Grids, Smart Farming, Home Automation and Connected Medical Devices.

Fog computing aims at providing horizontal, system-level, abstractions to distribute computing, storage, control and networking functions closer to the user along a cloud-to-thing continuum. Whilst fog computing is increasingly recognized as the key paradigm at the foundation of Consumer and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), most of the initiatives on fog computing focus on extending cloud infrastructure. As a consequence, these infrastructure fall short in addressing heterogeneity and resource constraints characteristics of fog computing environments.

Large scale IoT deployments do require a scalable cloud infrastructure. But now that all your stuff runs on the cloud, what about your development platform? How will you develop, debug and modify and test your applications?

Device connectivity is one of the most common issues IoT developers need to solve. Having an open source solution based on the standardized protocols that solves recurring connectivity problems is a very useful tool to have.